Posted on 02/22/2006 9:00:17 PM PST by Kaslin
Politicians across the political spectrum are raising their voices against the arrangement which would allow a United Arab Emirates company to manage six U.S. seaports, and on Tuesday's Situation Room, CNN's Jack Cafferty acted as a rabble-rousing activist as he encouraged his viewers to rise up against any politician who doesn't act to block the deal and he highlighted two viewer e-mails which advocated the impeachment of President Bush over the matter. Cafferty excoriated: "If our elected representatives don't do everything in their power to stop this thing, each of us should vow to work tirelessly to see that they are removed from public office....Here's the question. What should be done to stop a deal that would allow an Arab company with ties to terrorism to run U.S. ports?" Cafferty soon read from one e-mailer who argued that "this deal is nothing short of collusion with a foreign power of unknown intent during wartime. The President should be impeached." And another: "Putting George Bush in charge of our country was a huge mistake, and my fellow citizens finally realize that it was a disaster. Time to impeach this President."
The MRC's Megan McCormack caught the "Cafferty File" about 16 minutes into the 4pm EST hour of the February 21 Situation Room: "Wolf, this may be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back, this deal to sell control of six U.S. ports to a company controlled by the United Arab Emirates. There are now actually Senators and Congressmen and Governors and Mayors telling the White House you're not going to do this, and it's about time. No one has said no to this administration on anything that matters in a very long time. Well, this matters, matters a lot. If this deal is allowed to go through, we deserve whatever we get. A country with ties to terrorists will have a presence at six critical doorways to our country. And if anyone thinks the terrorists in time won't figure out how to exploit that, than we're all done. Nothing's happened yet, mind you, but if our elected representatives don't do everything in their power to stop this thing, each of us should vow to work tirelessly to see that they are removed from public office. We're at a crossroads. Which way will we choose? Here's the question. What should be done to stop a deal that would allow an Arab company with ties to terrorism to run U.S. ports? E-mail us at CaffertyFile@CNN.com or go to CNN.com/CaffertyFile."
At 4:58pm EST Cafferty returned with the feedback he got as he read some selected viewer e-mails with the text displayed on screen: "The question, Wolf, is what should be done to stop a deal that would allow an Arab company to operate six U.S. ports. We are getting tons of e-mail. Alan in Silver Springs, Maryland, 'The U.S. Congress must stand tall and united against the administration's plan. They must force the President to withdraw the government's approval.' Em in Barrington, Illinois, 'This deal is nothing short of collusion with a foreign power of unknown intent during wartime. The President should be impeached.' Mike writes, 'This administration has been going in the wrong direction. They've now turned a trot into a mad dash toward oblivion. This C grade President and his cronies are threatening our existence. This port deal must be stopped.' J.R., or excuse me, J.B., Raleigh, North Carolina, 'Jack, give someone enough rope, he'll hang himself. The arrogance of the Bush administration has finally caught up with it, and we're united at last. Putting George Bush in charge of our country was a huge mistake, and my fellow citizens finally realize that it was a disaster. Time to impeach this President.' Eric in Medina, Ohio, 'Congress must act to bar turning port security and operations over to foreign governments or foreign companies. Not merely Arab governments and companies, any foreign authority. American ports must be under the control of our citizens.' And David writes from Hawaii, 'The last time we had a government that was non-responsive to the wishes of the people they governed, we had a revolution.' Wolf?"
Jack is an ass.
Big time.
So let me guess, Cafferty is now reading knee-jerk hysteria on this site?
Give this a few weeks and once again the Democrats will have this blow up in their faces.
And now he's doing it again.
I can understand a 16 year old getting mixed up with the wrong crowd, but Jack is an aging idiot.
If UAE is so evil, Jack, were you protesting the sale of F-16 Fighter Jets to UAE by the Klintoon Administration, Jack ???
You haven't been paying attention. This is not just Democrats, I dare say most of the criticism is from Republicans. Republicans like me.
According to these butt munches Iraq had no ties with terrorists so impeach Bush. UAE, one of our most valued allies (next to Kuwait) in the Middle East has ties with terrorists so impeach Bush. Mental midgets.
Okay, this story has now officially jumped the shark.
A Clymer.
That would be my guess. :-)
I suggest you wait a few days and see just how many "Republicans like you" still feel the same way.
As people are finding out the facts, they're changing their minds.
I've never heard of this man and I do not watch bin-laden's news source, CNN.
"We now have help in closing down Guantanamo Bay."
(This was in reference to the U.N. report calling on the U.S. to close Gitmo.)
Well, then, it's going to blow up in your face, too.
Who the hell among the Arab countries is going to want to help the US in the WOT, when the thanks they get is to be labeled terrorists themselves by the Congress, and the dumb-as-stumps American people?
That's propaganda and you know that. The UAE has known ties to Bin Laden for crying out loud.
What has happened on this site in the past day? When this first broke, everyone was against it. Really, it seemed like everyone. But then Rush starts blabbing about it and now most people are suddenly for it? Whatever...
Bush passed gas! HE MUST BE IMPEACHED NOW!
Republicans like you?
You mean the knee jerk sect who don;t think, and just react without facts?
The wiser ones on the site know that it is good to wait for more information. ;-)
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